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> You don't have to create an iCloud account to install security updates How nice of it to tell you that while they are forcing you to create an account. > J
by justinsaccount 10y ago
> You don't have to create an iCloud account to install security updates
How nice of it to tell you that while they are forcing you to create an account.
> Just run `software update -i -a` from the Terminal.
Looks like it is `softwareupdate -a -i`.
> Moreover, you are confusing an iCloud account and an iTunes store/app store account
What is the difference? I do not have an iTunes account. I've never even started iTunes. I have the iCloud account the software made me create in order to install updates.
- coldtea 10y agoThe difference is that you maybe should learn what you are using before you complain about it inaccurately.
- justinsaccount 10y ago"I don't know the answer, but I'm going to insult you anyway".
- justinsaccount 10y agoI guess it's easier to insult people and down vote than to actually respond. Stay classy. I found the answer though, from https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201762 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201762: "Your Apple ID is the account that you use to access Apple services like the iTunes Store, Apple Music, iCloud, iMessage, FaceTime and more." So no, I am not "confusing an iCloud account and an iTunes store/app store account" because there is no such thing as either. The account the software forced me to create in order to install updates is an "Apple ID" and at some point used that to sign me into iCloud (which I have never used). I doubt I am the only person that has no interest in ever using iCloud but somehow has iCloud configured because of confusing or misleading UI patterns used OS X.
- coldtea 10y ago>"I don't know the answer, but I'm going to insult you anyway". The parent already answered your points.